The phrase "able to evoke a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that has the capacity to bring forth a particular feeling, response, or memory.
Example: "The film was able to evoke a sense of nostalgia in the audience, reminding them of their childhood."
Alternatives: "capable of eliciting a" or "able to generate a".
Will the very 21st-century figure who is Mr. Combs (a k a P. Diddy), whose career has been a triumph of nerve over probability, be able to evoke a man of thwarted dreams from the mid-20th century?
(Anonymous) When I've not been able to get to Scottish hills there's always been Glasgow, the town centre with its undulating hills, grid system, and fine Georgian architecture able to evoke a small liveable mixture of New York and San Francisco on the Clyde.
He veers from a slangy, conversational, wisecracking style to the tone of a perceptive philosopher, unable to resist mesmerising us with alliteration or suddenly dropping on us the sort of rhythmic street poetry that earned him the reluctant soubriquet "godfather of rap", equally able to evoke a mood of urgency or tenderness.
Howard has always been able to evoke a vanished world in a single sentence, a kind of snow globe effect: "I'm a girl from the circus town of Bridgeport," Mimi writes at one point, "where my grandfather, getting on with his life, carted water and hay — 17 dollars for the season — to elephants shivering in Barnum's winter quarters, longing for dust baths and a wallow in warm African rivers".
Of course natural spaces are also able to evoke a sense of the sacred, for the same sorts of reason.
In mice TNF alpha is able to evoke a direct vasoconstrictor effect on isolated cerebral vessels through Rac-1 activation [13].
The most successful models, including those who have cycled on and off this list, are able to evoke an emotional consumer response.
Even when using this longer duration protocol, each light pulse was able to evoke an action potential with high reproducibility.
By screening 16 potential ligands on 5 mDA ORs recombinantly expressed in an heterologous in vitro system, we identified carvone enantiomers as agonists at Olfr287 and able to evoke an intracellular Ca2+ increase in solitary mDA neurons.
This response, albeit minimal, it is present and strongly invariant across different choices of gene subsets and point to a possible decoupling between acute and global response of the system implying the presence of an alternative 'pattern recognition pathway'allowing the DKO cells to sense the stimulus without being able to evoke an acute massive response.
On the other hand, Mór Jókai was a popular Hungarian novelist, an exceptional storyteller able to evoke any epoch and any milieu.
